Post on 07-Apr-2017
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Postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, self-referentiality, and irony.
Wikipedia
/// Coincidence?
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“In Modern architecture we have operated too long under the restrictions of unbending rectangular forms sup- posed to have grown out of the technical requirements of the frame and the mass-produced curtain wall.”
/// Architecture
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/// so what??• Objectivity looked wrong in the face of
relativism (subjectivity) • Scientific methods as the driving force
of modernism lost some clout • Elements of magical thinking and
fantasy entered into our culture • In short, the burden of proof has
disappeared
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/// example
“What Slack is amazingly good for, is communities. It’s better than Twitter and Facebook groups for communities.”
“We know slack is cool and there’s no denying that it has its uses, but it just didn’t work for us.”
“We have experienced a great increase in team-wide communication since moving everyone to basecamp”
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/// How does science work?• Mathematical Proof • Empirical Evidence
Burden of proof lies with whom claiming to change state of the art.
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“The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease.”
Edsger Dijkstra
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/// mathematical reasoningHigh Availability in containers
A A A
B B B
A+B A+B A+B
A+B A+B A+Bvs.
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/// mathematical reasoning
High Availability in containers A A A
B B B
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99%
99%99%
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/// mathematical reasoning
High Availability in containers A+B A+B A+B
A+B A+B A+B
99%99%
99%99%
99999985
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/// mathematical reasoning
Health Endpoint API Responsibility
API
Request Response
status 200 or 500
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/// mathematical reasoning
Health Endpoint API Responsibility
Domain ( x )
Codomain ( y )
Function ( f )
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/// difference engine
In 1823, the British government gave Babbage £1700 to start work on the project… By the time the government abandoned the project in 1842, Babbage had received and spent over £17,000 on development, which still fell short of achieving a working engine. The government valued only the machine's output (economically produced tables), not the development (at unknown and unpredictable cost to complete) of the machine itself.
Charles Babbage
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/// re-capBurden of proof lies with whom claiming to change state of the art.
Just be aware of the impact of post-modern thinking in your tech life…
Try bringing objectivity and scientific reasoning back to every important decision.
Remember “… we come from a long line of scientists”
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http://blogs-images.forbes.com/centurylink/files/2015/05/decision-making.jpg
By Scanned from a copy, and intellectual property owned by Spire books., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2243801
http://www.unicornsrule.com/wp-content/uploads/rainbows-unicorns.jpghttp://1.viki.io/d/1863c/8b75dc48c9.gif
https://medium.com/@lelper/why-our-team-stopped-using-slack-32ba64977fad#.p106z78k9
http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/why-we-should-stop-using-grunt/
http://blog.varunarora.com/why-we-stopped-using-drupal-for-our-platform/